What is our true intention regarding life? Are we focused on the light that has descended into our hearts, to surrender itself within our being, to give our lives a turn toward a different realm of life?

We may struggle with that question. We may experience the light from the depths of our being, but we may get distracted and forget about it from time to time. Perhaps we sometimes become impatient, wanting to know exactly how we are doing and whether liberation is imminent. Or we may want to gain control over that complex process of liberation. 

The light of the Redeemer that we experience within our being, is of a completely different nature than anything we can perceive with our senses. It touches our heart first, because there we carry the light, the pleroma, within us. That pleroma is a field of creation, from which the person of light is born. Therefore, we do well to continually return to the still center of the heart in our busy life.

When we do this, we are like Maria Magdalene, of whom Jesus says:

“Maria: O you who are highly favoured, whom I will initiate into all the mysteries of the heights, speak openly, you whose heart is set on the kingdom of heaven more than all your brothers.”

And Maria answers: “Lord, the man of light within me has ears, and I hear with my light. Your spirit, which is with me, has sobered me.”

Maria Magdalene leads most of the dialogue between Jesus and his disciples. She asks the first question, explains most of the mysteries, and often represents the other disciples in the dialogue with the Redeemer.

Jesus declares that his most important disciples are Maria Magdalene and John the Virgin. He declares, “Where I am, there my twelve servants will be also.” “But Maria Magdalene and John the virgin will be superior to all my disciples and all those who will receive the mysteries in the Ineffable. They will be on my right and on my left. And I am they, and they are I.”

John is the aspect within us that can also enter into direct dialogue with Jesus. Therefore, there is a masculine and a feminine aspect of the heart, a creative and a giving-birth principle. We can always rely on our heart when it comes to approaching the mysteries.

However, there is a moment in the dialogue when Peter wants to speak and expresses his dissatisfaction with Maria Magdalene, who always speaks for him. Jesus then declares that Peter’s time has not yet come.

Maria, in turn, explains that she often did not dare to speak because of Peter, who hates her gender.

Who hasn’t experienced this tension between heart and head? As modern humans of the twenty-first century, we simply want to be able to use the mind and keep the heart under control, right?

The disciples represent the responses to the light of the Redeemer. The ability to focus on the light despite everything. They enable our entire attention to be directed toward the light, so that we experience joy, silence, devotion, gratitude, or ecstasy. They, in fact, make every response to the light understandable, as a logical consequence when the person of light enters into dialogue with the Redeemer.

However, we are also born with our own personal destiny, an individual karma. Our drives and inclinations also make our response to the light in everyday life very personal. We are born of the same substance as the archons, the powers of darkness. Therefore, we are especially familiar with the problems of living in darkness and are blind to the light. The disciples teach us how to maintain the dialogue with the Redeemer. This dialogue continues throughout the Gospel of Pistis Sophia.

The great miracle of being human is that a receptivity can develop for the threefold light that the Redeemer raises to the treasury of light. This aspect is expressed in the three disciples, whom we come to know as the witnesses of the kingdom of light. They are the higher aspects of our being, who realize the words of the Redeemer in life.

The book puts it this way:

Now it happened when Jesus heard Philip speaking, that he said to him, "Philip, you who are highly favoured, listen, so that I may speak with you. You, Thomas, and Matthew are the ones who were commanded by the first mystery to write down all the speeches I will speak, and everything I will do, and everything you will see. But as for you, the number of treatises to be written by you has not yet been completed; when this is completed, you may come forward and say whatever you choose." Now, however, you three shall write down all the discourses I shall speak, and all that I shall do, and all that you shall see, as a testimony of all things of the kingdom of heaven.

The triangle is the symbol of the threefold spirit, which becomes active when the foundation of life is a square, when all aspects of human endeavor are directed toward the light. If we truly want, desire, and expect to be liberated, we can change from a fourfold human being, whose highest faculty is a mind, into a sevenfold human being. We are then able to see the sacred earth in its original state, to recount the myths of the priest-king Melchizedek, who rules over this sacred earth.

How do you become human again when you struggle with instincts formed over millions of years? The three lower chakras below the heart direct life under the influence of the forces of the archons, the life of the instincts that serve the solar plexus. The three chakras above the heart serve the mind, which in turn serves the lower three chakras: mirrored in the heart, filled with the longing for fulfillment of an eternal void. This cycle is only broken when the higher chakras once again become receptive to the three creative powers of the Redeemer, for from them we actually originated; they are our true "parents," as the quote below illustrates.

"From then on, the witnesses of the realm of light write the words of Jesus. Then seven forces can purify all the chakras, for the Redeemer comes with seven forces from the treasury of light: the seven voices that are the seven amens, as it is written. We can witness this wondrous transformation, as silent observers who serve only love. The love that is the first commandment in the order of Melchizedek. We were born with the destiny to fulfill the first commandment and love humanity. The fulfillment of the law of love."

Quote from Pistis Sophia, a journey through the spaces of the Ineffable: Chapter 132 Salome and the destiny of man 

When the saviour had said this, Salome sprang up and said: 'My lord, when our parents are the archons, how can it be written in the law of Moses: he who leaves his father and mother will die. Has not the law said thus?'

And when Salome had said this, the power of light welled up in Maria, and she said to the saviour: 'My lord, command me that I speak to my sister Solomon and give her the interpretation of the word which she has spoken.'

Now it happened when the saviour heard Maria say these words, that he called her very blessed. The saviour answered and said to Maria: 'I command you, Maria, that you give the interpretation of the word that Salome has said.'

After the saviour had said this, Maria went to Salome, greeted her, and said to her: 'My sister Salome, concerning the word which you have said: it is written in the law of Moses: whosoever will leave father and mother will die. Well, my sister Salome, the law has not said this concerning the soul, nor concerning the body, nor concerning the spirit counterpart for these are all sons of the  archons and are of them, but the law has said this concerning the power which has come forth from the saviour and which is now the man of light within us.